Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [adj] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would seem then to fall to those staff who happen to be bilingual , or to those few teachers who are actually engaged in the teaching of community languages , to raise general awareness in the few schools in which they are deployed . |
| 2 | And for those few women who parrot their words . |
| 3 | And for those few hours after she got home she found she could talk to her mother properly for the first time in over two years . |
| 4 | From 1926 to 1930 she shared her ideas about colour with the painter Christopher Wood and for those few years their work looked similar . |
| 5 | But he was n't , and during those few seconds while he 'd held her , she 'd had to admit this growing physical attraction she felt for him . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't care about the baby , ’ Philip said , and with those few words he doomed his unborn son . |
| 7 | And in those few moments he looked so much like his father , Major John Lewis , the man who had first taken her virginity , and later betrayed her husband . |
| 8 | I just looked at her very quickly — I was so nervous — and in those few seconds she was gone . |
| 9 | For a few seconds the lights at the Villa Fiesole failed entirely , and in those few seconds there was the sound of the back door being opened and footsteps in the passage . |
| 10 | Doggedly she kept her head down over the jewel-coloured designs , trying to concentrate , but after another few seconds she gave up and laid down her pen with elaborate resignation . |
| 11 | It was a local canal planned by local men with local capital for local reasons.40 An extreme example perhaps because it was on the periphery of the network , but in general few canals were cut with other than local economic benefits in mind . |
| 12 | But in those few weeks of her being pregnant , it immediately became our child . |